Translators Metres and Tulchinsky team up again to bring us Thirty-five New Pages, one of Lev Rubinstein’s note-card poems, written in 1981. Does it tell a story? Is it a reflection on the form of the book? Is it there at all? This classic minimalist/conceptualist text from the “postmodern Chekhov” summons Genesis and Zen, Tractatus and guided meditation, with whip-smart wit and considerable elan, presented here on 35 library-style cards in a handsome letterpressed box.  “Here, in fact, something could happen.”

Eastern European Poets Series #28.

This poem is included in Rubinstein’s Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties, available here. A page from this poem is available as a broadside here.